2038: only 21 years away

Posted Mar 16, 2017 18:45 UTC (Thu) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: 2038: only 21 years away by gdt
Parent article: 2038: only 21 years away

Given that, I suspect that the UNIX system designers had not intended for the system time representation to be suitable for calendaring, scheduling, etc.

That intent doesn't matter. What matters is how the real-world programs people depend on deal with time, and plenty of them have gone ahead and used UNIX system time representation for all kinds of stuff. It's too late to berate programmers for using UNIX system time in domains it wasn't intended for; now we have to deal with the problems doing so has created.

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